ABSTRACT This paper uses Freud’s idea of evenly suspended attention, as applied through Bick’s method of infant observation, to demonstrate a technique crucial to the work of the parent-infant clinician. Cultivating an evenly suspended state of attention is shown to be an indispensable technique for the clinician’s mind at work, especially for the parent infant clinician, whose external setting is unpredictable and challenging. Without a fixed external setting, a portable frame is required: the internal setting established by combining psychoanalytic theory with this specific kind of free-floating attention. This claim will be illustrated by an observer’s use of attentiveness in a daycare setting. The observer gathered the experience of a four-month-old infant in psychic peril. Lacking his caregiver’s attention, the infant was object-absent. The observer’s sensitive, absorbing stance was pivotal: not only to finding meaning and containing the primitive anxieties of an infant in trouble, but also – critically – to enabling the development of the infant’s sense of self by building a mental bridge to an unavailable caregiver, who could be reached and ultimately found a place in her mind for him.

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便携式精神分析框架：平均悬浮的注意力，Bick的婴儿观察方法及其在日托中的观察员应用[意外]

摘要本文采用了弗洛伊德通过Bick的婴儿观察方法平均分散注意力的想法，以证明对父母-婴儿临床医生的工作至关重要的技术。对于临床医生而言，培养注意力的均匀悬浮状态是一项必不可少的技术，特别是对于父母婴儿临床医生而言，其外部环境是无法预测且具有挑战性的。如果没有固定的外部设置，则需要一个便携式框架：将心理分析理论与这种特定类型的自由浮动注意力相结合而建立的内部设置。观察者在日托环境中对注意力的使用将说明这一主张。观察者收集了一个4个月大的婴儿在心理上的危险经历。由于缺乏照顾者的注意力，婴儿没有对象。